DivisionTheory suggests that when we die, there is a high degree of chance that our most basic and fundamental inner psychological selves will suffer being split apart into pieces, and that is indeed a scary alternative to face. It seems even more scary today than it would have, say, only 30 or 40 years ago, because in the last few decades, our culture has embraced new mythologies, which have basically told everyone that everything is just fine and there's nothing to worry about. This of course is a new message, and does not find any support in the teachings of mankind's past teachings, which always taught quite the opposite - that one's situation after death could prove to be quite unfortunate indeed.

But DivisionTheory does not suggest that all humans are doomed. It suggests, in fact, that not one, but two paths of escape from this doom are available.

THE FIRST PATH

The first path has always existed, and has been spoken of in every spiritual tradition - the first path would be, of course, to avoid dividing apart at death altogether. How to do this is virtually

synonymous with "Enlightenment" or "Finding the Kingdom of Heaven" or "liberation" or however you wish to term it. In any language, it is found the same way - through achieving inner unity and perfect integrity (by being the same on the outside as one is on the inside). In the

simplest words, this unity is achieved by seeking out and honoring one's soul while alive, by listening to the guidance and concerns of one's own soul and not discounting them or rejecting them. To reject, ignore, and deny the input from one's own unconscious soul during life is to only

widen the split between the conscious spirit and unconscious soul, to divide ourselves. If we are to divide apart at death, it is only because we have been dividing ourselves all along during life, and after we quit the body, there is nothing left to hold the two pieces together.

Do you want to remain whole and undivided after your death? You must achieve, or, rather, find, your own inner wholeness and unity while alive. The ancient Christians prayed fervently for this ("Be ye therefore perfectly whole, even as your Father in heaven is perfectly whole") as did the ancient Jews before them (Hear, O Israel, the Lord thy God, the Lord is One")

How to achieve this inner unity between the soul and spirit, between the conscious and unconscious? Virtually all the world's spiritual paths are but different forms of this same road. All of them, if practiced with genuine sincerity, will force one to become more aware of his or her own inner soul. All of them, if truth be known, are various forms of psychotherapy.

How to achieve this inner unity? How to make the unconscious conscious, and the conscious unconscious? How to make the two one? I suggest that any who seek answers to this question study the Gospels of the New Testament, as well as the newly rediscovered Gospels of Thomas, Philip, and Truth, which focus on this very subject. Who was Christ? The Bible, and these other scriptures, declare that He was one who "made the two one", and indeed this "making the two one" was the purpose of His mission.

(Do we REALLY divide apart at death ? There is some evidence to suggest that the whole division after death is ultimately an illusion, that our apparent lack of wholeness and inner unity during life is also an illusion, and our two halves still secretly remain united through it all. But this illusion will not be instantly dissolved at death, rather, it will continue, and even though the two halves of our being may remain, in reality, as close as two pees in a pod through it all, they may well each EXPERIENCE the other as missing or absent. The illusion holds now, during life, for most of us, and the evidence suggests that it will continue to do so after death unless we make efforts to overcome it.)

THE SECOND PATH

But, you may wish to remind me at this point, I stated that this "making the two one" is just the first of TWO chances to avoid doom. Yes. If this first chance is missed, and we do not achieve perfect inner unity prior to quitting our bodies (and face it, most of us won't), DivisionTheory suggests that a second chance still awaits us on down the road.

But it may be rather a LONG way down the road. DivisionTheory suggests that the division, both during life and after death, is ultimately an illusion, and eventually all illusions must dissipate.

DivisionTheory suggests that this illusion of division began in the Garden of Eden, when Eve (the unconscious soul) was first separated from Adam (the conscious spirit). This was the "Fall of Man", which Christ came to repair. Since the fall of man, people have continued to reincarnate, and at the end of their lives, they have discarded and abandoned their unconscious souls, and went along their merry way into new lives. So over centuries and millennia, untold numbers of discarded unconscious souls have been collecting in humanity's collective unconscious, with no apparent hope of ever being rejoined with their original conscious spirits.

But if the division is an illusion, then what has apparently been divided must eventually be reunited, and that is what the Judgment Day scenario is all about. At the end of time, various ancient prophetic sources insist, all the world's dead will rise back up to full living existence.

If reincarnation indeed is a part of the overall picture, then many of these long-dead souls will be various reincarnations of one another. They will share identity, and will have to awaken together within the same conscious mind and body. This is, I suspect, the real meaning of the prophecies of Judgment Day. At that time, all soul will be reunited with their original spirits, and this will constitute the second chance to avoid doom. This reunion will be forced upon us from without; it will not be due to our own integrity or unity. At this time we will be forced, by matters outside our control, to experience pure and total inner unity, which, for some, will be worse even than having been divided, because they will finally no longer be able to avoid confronting what they have built up within themselves. All that hides in our deepest beings will now be exposed to the light, and all the feelings we have avoided feeling for lifetimes will now be experienced in their fullness.

For some, this will not be escape from doom, but doom itself, and in comparison, the division they suffered in the afterlife would seem like a blessing, for it had held them is a sort of suspended animation, in which they had not had to consciously confront and fully experience the full fruits of their actions in their many lifetimes.

But like I said, this will constitute another path of escape from doom, for a way out has been prepared from the horrendous self-confrontation of Judgment Day, but that way out carries a great price - the permanent and fully conscious co-existence of the mind of Christ within one's one

psyche. This will be offered to all at Judgment Day, and once accepted, will not be able to be rejected again. It will allow one to avoid being totally destroyed by the self-confrontation processes of Judgment Day, but to many, it will seem like sacrificing their own independent

autonomy, and will be rejected for that reason. But for those who accept, that from-then-on ever present and ever-conscious voice of Christ within will guide them towards the same "Enlightenment" that Christ Himself realized 2,000 years ago.

Unlike the first path of "Enlightenment", this second path of escape from doom may not have always existed. There seems some reason to suspect that if Jesus had not ever existed and achieved what he did, the Judgment Day scenario would have never been able to happen, and the

souls and spirits of mankind, once separated at death, would have no chance whatsoever of ever reuniting again. Indeed, prior to the Christian message, the religions and traditions of mankind taught just this - that after death, it was too late, and no further chances would ever present themselves. But the Christian message gives hope for a second chance, which is exactly what one might expect from the loving Father Jesus tried to introduce to the world.

DivisionTheory's conclusions are arrived at simply by following the logic of the question, what would happen to the two sides of the mind if they both continued to exist and function after death, but no longer interacted with one another? Throughout this whole 10-year journey of research, I have been continually amazed that this theory, founded on the discoveries of modern science, so precisely replicates the ancient lends about Creation, life after death, Judgment Day, and the like. The full story of how the logic arrives at these conclusions, of course, is presented in my book.

Now, onto your last question - if we lose our old soul at the end of one life, how do we get another soul at the beginning of a new one? This answer requires us to bring into view the multi- layered nature of the unconscious. The unconscious, Jung taught, is comprised of two layers -

a personal unconscious (or subconscious) and the collective unconscious. DivisionTheory suggests that at the end of one life, one's personal unconscious, or personal soul, detaches from the conscious mind/spirit, and falls down into the depths of the collective unconscious. Now, this

collective unconscious, it seems, DOES remain attached to the conscious spirit (thus, the division is ultimately an illusion), but communication cannot proceed directly from the conscious spirit to the collective unconscious, but must be carried via a middleman - the personal unconscious. The Hawaiian Huna held a similar belief - that one's conscious self could not communicate directly with the higher self (the realm of the gods - the collective unconscious), but had to speak through one's lower self (the unconscious soul).

Ancient Hindu scriptures declare that each spirits's new incarnation is attended by the "Great Soul". At this time, DivisionTheory suggests, at the new birth of an infant, a small piece of the collective unconscious or Great Soul is partitioned away and given to the conscious spirit as a

new personal soul for that life. That new piece of soul then begins registering and recording experiences and memory data, and generating feelings and emotions in response to the input it receives. At the end of that life, that personal soul can either remain united with that spirit, or separate from it, depending on how strong of a bond has been forged between the two during the course of the lifetime.